At the moment immorting is quite insane for anyone that would like to just fix
things and enjoy playing. Either you build up tolerance for those things or
suicide your character and fix it, either way the fun factor takes a hit. So
why not make immorting less \"If you fix the bike, you wont ride
it\" like...

When a person immorts her/his character gets stored (read: exp, TPs &
cash) to a place where only a (high) arch can get his hands on.
If that person decides after for some time that s/he is done wizing, there
would be a week long vote. One hidden and one public. To the hidden one can
participate all other wizards that have been on that week and the vote would
solely answer to the question \"Has <remorter> been a successfully
wizard, in sense of shaping this game for better?\"
If this vote would yield that the person in question has really done
something in his wiz carrier, there would be a second week long public vote
that everyone can take part that would answer the question \"Has wizard
<remorter> been a successfully in her/his task of shaping this game for
the better?\".
After those votes, the remorters character would be stored, effectively in
same % that the wizards voted that he has really been improving the game and
not been idling and reading other peoples code to learn ingame secrets. The
public vote would give the remorter equal amount of TPs from her/his (wiz)
levels that the public vote yielded.

This way those that really would like to improve the game would have a
chance to do it without shooting them selves at their own leg. Not everyone
want to increase their virtual dick, some people play this because it is fun.

A hits you.

I definitely second this idea. I\'ve thought of wizzing just so I could change
things that I\'ve noticed were wrong. But, when I realize that I\'d have to
give up my character and wouldn\'t again have to experience those things that
were wrong, the desire to wiz sort of goes away.

Heck, I can think of at least two very broad-in-scope projects I\'d LOVE to
tackle right now. Just two, and I\'d be happy and go back to playing again.

At any rate, there would obviously have to be some sort of limits on this
process. Total exp and level seems like the first obvious one, and proving
one\'s ability to actually write working code seems like another. (Balance the
two--s, say, for example, if somebody only has a level 50-ish character but
actually can code and has fun ideas, they might have a chance.)

And, yes, I know that expanding the ranks of wizards would end up diluting the
\"feel\" of Batmud, because everyone shape things into their own personal
vision of the game. I really don\'t know what to do about that one.

Anyway, beyond that... I think it would be fun to be able to play through an
area I\'ve coded. I think it would be great to see people enjoying changes
that I\'d made and to enjoy them myself.

Just a thought.

(*==-- /\/ --==*) BatMUD Council Representative (*==-- /\/ --==*)